Cyber Security And More

Author: Ashutosh

Digital India! the words that changed Indian people’s life. Now wherever we go, whether its small shops or a big store, we see those white-blue labels with scanning code, “Paytm Accepted Here”. Post demonetization, two words that come to almost every Indian’s mind while Shopping on streets are “Paytm karo.” Initially started as a prepaid…

Today morning one of my friends sent me a message on Whatsapp saying “Don’t Touch Here”! But it is in my blood to do exactly opposite of what I am instructed not to do something! I touched the message and to my shock, My WhatsApp hanged for few moments and crashed. I looked at other…

Yesterday on 3rd of May The official Twitter support handle posted tweets asking everyone to change their Twitter account passwords. It referenced to a blog published by twitter CTO Parag Agrawal, where he referenced to a technical glitch in twitter internal software and requested all the account to get their passwords changed. Twitter already started…

As the digital transactions are growing, everyone started having banking Applications on their smartphone. These apps provide ease in performing transactions and other bank related tasks. But beware, there is an Android Banking Trojan that can steal credentials from various Banking Apps, including most popular Indian Banks. The list includes SBI, ICICI, HDFC, IDBI etc…

We do surf and visit a lot of websites every day and we come across this term HTTPS frequently. Many of the websites, especially the popular ones have this special HTTPS added at the beginning of their URL. The browsers, Chrome, Opera, Firefox display a green mark marking them as Secured or safe. As we…

Ransomware…! The thing hitting the news these days. Almost a month ago, half of the world was hit by the dirty WannaCry and now it’s the time of Petya. Petya Ransomware is not the newest product in the market of Cyber Threats. This danger is quite old and was identified already almost a year ago….

Website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site or a webpage. Defacement is generally used to spread messages by politically motivated “cyber protesters” or hacktivists. Web defacement is often considered a minor form of Cyber Attack, very much like a petty crime. Web defacement is relatively easier to…

Targeted cyber attacks are those which are performed over a period of time with a clear intention of damaging an organization’s reputation by stealing data from their network and servers. Targeted attacks are the worst case scenario any organization can imagine as not only it might lose reputation but also may cost millions of loss…

A very crucial and highly targeted sector by hackers is banking. Banks are the place where a country’s money lies. Almost all the banks going digital now a days, opened up a new threat to cyber world’s safety. If an attacker can get his hands on any banks e payment system he might receive good…

The end of the year is already upon us. It is that time of the year, when we look back at last 12 months and remember all the events happened in our lives. So, let’s take a look back on how cyber-attacks compromised our secure cyber walls and exploited our networks. Almost all of us…